Combat block

A combat block is understood to be a facility belonging to a fortress that is entrusted with a special task, similar to a single combat bunker , infantry , artillery or combined. Combat blocks are organizationally linked to a fortress.

In detail there were in the works of the Maginot Line :

• Artillery casemates : Equipped with guns, from nicks shot
• Artillery bunker: retractable armored turrets
• Infantry casemates : loop stalls with heavy machine guns and anti-tank guns .
• Infantry bunker: retractable machine gun turrets
• Observation bunker : equipped with observation domes
• Combined blocks : bunkers or casemates with several functions, for example artillery and observationbunkers orartillery and infantrybunkersin one.

see also technical terms fortress construction